A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.